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MACHINE FON PERFORMING ONEGKS AND DRAFTS. No. 252,550. Patented Jan. 17,1882.

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SIGMUND ULLMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MACHINE FOR PERFORATING CHECKS AND DRAFTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,550, dated January 17, 1852. Application filed .Tune 17, 1881-. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIGMUND ULLMAN, of the city, county, and State of New York,ha\'e invented a new and Improved Machine for Performing Cheeks and Drafts, of which the following is a. specication.

The object of my invention vis to provide a new and improved machine for perforating cheeks or drafts in sueh amanner that the amount for which the check is drawn cannot be forged or raised.

Theiuvention consists of a plate eontaininga series ofloose punch-pins arranged in longitudinal rows marked units,7 tens, hundreds, Src., and in transverse rows marked 0,77 1;7 2, 3, Sie., which punch-pins tinto perforations in a die-plate below the punch-plate, and provided with a guide or gage for the end of the Above each longitudinal row there is a sliding bar with a beveled notch in its under surface, and with the numerals from Oto 9 on its upper surface, one of which numerals is visible through anaperture in the top plate, this notch being so located that it will be above the punch-pin corresponding to the number showing through the aperture, and when the punch-plate is depressed the punch-pins under the notches will not be depressed, and consequently the corresponding numbers on a prepared cheek will not be punched, and will show the value of the cheek, whereas, all the other numerals will be punched.

1n the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal elevation of my improved machine for perforating checks and drafts, the perforating apparatus being shown in eiosssection. Fig. 2 is a` plan view of the perforat ing apparatus. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same 0n the line x a', Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a perforated cheek.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

The plate A is provided with a series of punch-pins, B, loosely fitting in perforations in this plate, and arranged in longitudinalrows markedunts,tens,"huudreds,&c.,andin transverse rows marked 0,1,"2, 3,&e., in the same manner as the ends of the checks or drafts are provided with the numbers from 0 to 9, arranged in longitudinal rows marked units, tens, hundreds,&c. The punchpins B are provided with beveled .or conical heads C, and pass through correspondingperfo rationsin a guide-plate, E, below theplate A, and attached to the top ofthe die-plate F, provided with perforationsG, corresponding in position with the punch-pins of the plateA. The plate E is recessed on the under side, so that the check can be passed in between the platesE and F. A guide or gage, N, is held between these two plates at one end and serves to guide the check or draft in such a manner that the subdivisions vor numbered squares of the check or draft agree with the punch-pins B. The plate A is pressed upward from the plate E by spiral springs H.

A bar, T, with a beveled notch, O, in its lower surface and the numerals Oto Qin its upper surface, is contained and slides in a groove in the plate A above each longitudinal row of punch-pins, the sliding barsbeingheldin these grooves by transverse plates P and P', the

former of which is provided with an aperture, Q, above each bar T, this aperture being marked the same as the corresponding rows of puneh-pinsthat is, units, tens,77 hundreds,7 Src. Each bar T is provided with an aperture, R, in the end, for inserting a hook,

S, to move these bars.

To punch a check the same is passed in between the plates E and F, which are placed below the follower K of a plunger, L, of a press, M.

The operation is as follows: For example, we will assume that the check is drawn for the sum of seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars. `The check or draft J is eut from the cheek-book in the manner shown, so that 7 will be the highest numeral of the thousands column. So that the amountof the check cannot be raised, all the other numerals must be punched or perforated but those stating the amount of the check. For this purpose the following punch-pins must be so adjusted that they will not peiforate the cheek, viz: No. 7 on the longitudinal row marked thousands,7 No. 8 on the row marked hundreds,No.3 on the row marked tens,7 and No. 6 on the row marked units To accomplish this the sliding bar T ofthe longitudinal row marked thousands is moved until the nu- IOO meral7 of this bar appearsin the corresponding aperture, Q, when the notch O will be above the pin B on this row and on the transverse row markcd7.7 ThebarT,abovetherowofpinsB, 1narkedhnndreds,is moved until thenumeral Sappearsinthecorrespondingaperture,Q. The other sliding bars T are moved accordingly, &c. If the punch-plate is now depressed, those pins below the notches O will not be depressed, and the corresponding numerals of the check will not be perforated, whereas all the rest are depressed and perforate the check, for the bars T press the punches down. Thus the figures indicating the amount of the check only will remain unpunched, and the amount of the check or dra-ft will be shown in a manner rendering raising or forging ot' the amount im possible. If the bars T are then moved, the

beveled heads C and the beveled sides of the notches 0 slide on each other, whereby the. pins B that have been raised by depressing the plate A, as shown in Fig. 3, will be depressed into the normal position.

This machine is to be used for punching and perforatin g not only checks or drafts, but any paper or instrument relating to any distinct sum of money or money value, or numbering. Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a machine for perforating checks and drafts, the combination, with the perforated SIGMUND ULLMAN.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNz, C. SEDGWICK. 

